----- Original Message -----
From: Gareth Otte <gotte@???>
To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@???>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Intranet server
> Thank you for your reply. Yes, you have misunderstood the siuation, and
> thats probably my fault for not explaining myself clearly.
> I am based in city X and am running an Exim mail server. We currently
supply
> a mail service to various clients all over the country who retrieve their
> mail by connecting via frame relay to our mail server. So, no they don't
> each have their own mail server, I have the only mail server. What I meant
> by the man next door is that if a user in city Y sent mail to a colleague
to
> another user in his department, the mail would come all the way down to
city
> X, be processed by Exim and then sent back accross the frame relay and
back
> to the colleague.
> I would like to set up a mail server which will handle all local mail in
> city Y and if the user is not found on that mail server, the mail would
then
> be sent down to me in city X to be processed and delivered. (I know that
> Exim actually doesn't do the delivery, but it is the only way I can
explain
> myself)
> Would it then be possible to have one email account in Outlook eg
> joe@??? and that user could send mail to any internal user through the
> intranet server and also send external mail which would be relayed down to
> me in city X.
> I can get around the problem by placing an entry in the DNS server for the
> domain pointing it to the intranet server, but that means that I have to
> have two email accounts in Outlook.
> That's it in a nutshell. I hope that I have not been to long winded and
have
> explained myself clearly enough.
> I hope that there is a solution to my problem.
> Thanks
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey+lists@???>
> To: Gareth Otte <gotte@???>
> Cc: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Intranet server
>
>
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Gareth Otte wrote:
> >
> > > I have been asked to investigate setting up an intranet to help
> > > minimise mail traffic. We supply mail to various clients all over the
> > > country and have noticed that users are sending local mail (to the man
> > > in the office next door)and that mail is sent all the way down to the
> > > mail server processed and then sent back, causing unnecessary traffic.
> >
> > I don't understand your situation. Does the "man next door" have his
own
> > mail server? Do the "various clients all over the country" have their
own
> > mail servers? What are they running.
> >
> > If each location has its own mail server (running exim) then configure
> > those to keep or deliver directly anything that they consider local, and
> > pass anything non-local off to your mail mail hub. Have the MUAs point
to
> > the local mail hubs for sending mail.
> >
> > But I suspect that I've misunderstood the situation.
> >
> > -j
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Goldberg
> > I have recently moved, see http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/contact.html
> > Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over
justice
> >
> >
>
